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Quarantine Diaries: Day 282

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Even if you’re accepting of mask mandates, you’ve got to wonder how effective they actually are given the spotty way they’re complied with. Here in Minnesota, it’s statewide for the interiors of all businesses. But when I’m out and about, I’m seeing something like 8–10% of people wearing masks that are over their mouths but not their noses and another 1-2% using them as chin guards since, as everyone knows, if you’re cleft-chinned like Kirk Douglas, you’re at heightened risk for respiratory ailments. And sporadically a few folks here and there, invariably male, wearing no mask at all. Store employees never seem to confront the scofflaws but we’ve all seen stories of people being physically attacked for doing so and some schmoe making $12 an hour understandably doesn’t want to risk that. Oddly enough, I’ve seem more than a few people who wear their masks incorrectly then cover up their mouth and nose as they leave the building since it’s cold outside.

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